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(1780-1867). In the mid-19th century, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a leader of the neoclassical, as opposed to the Romantic, school of painting in France. He influenced considerably such later artists as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Pablo Picasso. (See also Degas, Edgar; Picasso, Pablo; Renoir, Pierre-Auguste.)